[HLUG] Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro recommendations

[Morven Lewis-Everley]

A few people on here use Linux Mint. It is based on Ubuntu, so I thought I
would give it a try, due to Ubuntu 8 causing me a lot of stability issues.

It looks really slick, probably one of the nicest distros I have seen. It
comes with Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird Pidgin etc etc, and I have
found it so far has been more stable and also didnt mess up when I tried to
set up my Nvidia card :). Plus it also uses apt for package management.

I am quite impressed with it to be honest, would definatly recomend it.

Mo

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul Stenning <paul at vintage-radio.com>wrote:

> I've been playing with a few distros to see if there is anything that
> takes my fancy better than Ubuntu.
>
> Fedora 9 looks good and seems to work well.  Plus it's not brown!
> However I am having a lot of problems with the PackageKit software
> installer thing.  It keeps stalling with a "waiting for other tasks to
> complete" message which never clears.  So if I have chosen several
> packages to install and get to this I have to quit it and lose the
> options I set.  From Googling this seems to be a fairly common problem
> with lots of moaning but no decent solutions.  I have the same problem
> with two installs (one on VMware and one on a real PC).  It looks like
> they haven't learnt from the problems with openSUSE 10.1 a while ago
> when their package manager was broken.
>
> So with Fedora out of the running and deleted, what other distros are
> recommended for ease of use and reliability?  Requirements are Gnome
> desktop (KDE feels clunky and overblown to me), the ability to upgrade
> from one release to the next without wiping the disk and starting again,
> recent packages by default (OpenOffice 2.4, Firefox 3.0 etc) without
> pointless renaming (I want Firefox not Iceweazle!), as much as possibe
> configurable from the GUI, active development, and plenty of packages in
> the repositories.  I guess I'm describing Ubuntu really, but I'm keen to
> look at some others too.  Suggestions welcomed please!
>
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